Re: Springer Nature Journals layout: is this change safe?

Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> Fri, 6 Mar 2026 21:53:50 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.editors.lyx.devel
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On Fri, Mar 06, 2026 at 07:28:58PM +0100, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Mar 2026 at 09:58, Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Mar 05, 2026 at 09:10:26PM +0100, Thibaut Cuvelier wrote:
> > > I ended up pushing f13d9199, a variant of the patch that doesn't have
> > side
> > > effects. (I had forgotten the DocBookSection parameter!)
> >
> > Great! I uninverted the test at b2e6ab84 thanks to your fix.
> >
> 
> Just to be clear: if the test passes, it's just because the testing
> procedure is not very demanding. The output is valid XML (syntactically
> correct) but not valid DocBook (semantically correct: the figures have no
> content apart from comments).

Makes sense. The important thing is that the test results are
informative to you. Whatever you think is best in terms of
increasing/decreasing the strictness of the tests sounds good to me.

> > The following two tests fail for me:
> >
> >
> > INVERTED.DOCBOOK_export/examples/Language_Support/Localization_Test_%28for_Developers%29_docbook5
> > export/examples/ja/Modules/Linguistics_docbook5
> >
> > It seems we can invert the "INVERTED" test above. i.e., that export used
> > to fail but now passes. I'm not sure if thanks to your fix today, or
> > thanks to a previous fix. If it's OK with you, I can "uninvert" this
> > test.
> >
> 
> It might very well be related, as I changed a few elements in standard
> definitions (7d5b9d78).

Sounds good, uninverted at f23f6c3a.

> > I'm not sure about the Linguistics_docbook5. Maybe it started failing
> > due to a change in the Linguistics manual. If so, we might want to
> > invert this one (since it would not be a regression in DocBook).
> 
> 
>  I just had a look at that document and it made LyX crash… I reworked a bit
> the code to output a comment instead of crashing LyX (especially as the
> error scenario doesn't seem too rare). Locally, this document is valid
> DocBook 5 (as of 5f92d566).

Thanks! Indeed, looks good here too.

Scott

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